A 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg by a stray bullet during a nearby gang fight as she walked from school in Midwood, Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon, cops said.
The teen was grazed in the right ankle at East 16th Street and Avenue M just around the corner from her school, Edward R. Murrow High School, and steps from the Q train station a little after noon, police said.
The teen was shot in the right ankle at East 16th Street and Avenue M in Midwood, cops said. Citizen App
The shooting happened just outside the Q train station at Avenue M in Brooklyn. Citizen App
A teen boy fled the scene of the shooting, sources said. Citizen AppShe was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
The victim, who was walking to a bus stop at the time, was shot when two groups of kids opposite each other were fighting and fired shots, said NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell at an evening press conference at police headquarters in Manhattan.
“We believe it’s a gang-motivated incident. We believe one group pointed a gun at another group. The other group has a gun and fires and hits the 16-year-old,” Chell said.
The teen was not the intended target, he said.
Police later arrested a person with a gun they believe was used in the shooting.
